Another day...

Where to begin this posting of never ending randomness? The latest chunk of my life has been an interesting one. Some ups, a bit of downs, overall....not really too much going on. It's kind of depressing. I never figured being AVERAGE would be depressing. I know what some of you are thinking, "Well you should strive to be above average." I'm not talking about me being average, I'm talking about nothing major going on in my life. Nothing super amazing has happened that has me crazy giddy (although things may be in the works there), but nothing really bad has happened that I've learned a life lesson or any of that fun stuff about.

So lets start with the band stuff. Socastee (the high school band that I teach colorguard at) made state finals for the 2nd time in the last 3 years I've been there. Before the first year they made in while I've been there, it had been about 15 years since they had made it last. So this consistency is a nice change of pace for everyone involved in the organization. At the state contest, there was a bit of a train wreck during our show, but we still managed to place 14th (out of 17). Next saturday is our last competition of the season. Then I have a few major decisions to make, more on that when I make them.

Friends have been fairly busy, but that is to be expected with school. I am just as busy with mine. It's kicking my butt, but I'm doing my best to keep my grades up. Relationships are just bleh...I've decided I'm done trying to find the perfect girl for me. She'll come around one day, I'll just be waiting for when the time is right. Its a lot easier than fighting for girls that don't care, or don't realize what they had (might sound conceded, but its what I've heard from others).

There are a few exciting things in the works for the future. Once more gets established with those, then they might appear here, but I don't want this to just be a blog about my life, so we'll see. I think I'd rather post my opinions on matters that are going on around the world and just different problems people have. Honestly I never really know what I'm planning to post about, so most of these are straight from my mind on the spot!

One other thing...my appearance. I'm thinking of making a few changes, but not sure yet. One, I've been growing my beard out, and finally got it to where I'm fully trimming it up and keeping it neat. Don't know if I should keep it yet or not. The other is growing my hair out. I've been debating this one for a while and can never decide, so I cut it until I can figure it out. Leave your comments with your thoughts on my beard and growing my hair out!

Until next time!

Uplifting a bit

That's just a little chill music to kinda set the mood for this blog. I'm not going to be bitching or ranting about anything. This is just a little bit to maybe open someones eyes to what is around them.

I recently saw a video of a woman, I believe she was a little older than me, that had an implant put in that allowed her to hear for the very first time. Upon watching it, when she got to the end and started crying, she said "I don't like that sound" the Doctor with her said, "But that's you. That's your tears." The lady looked up to him wide eyed like a child at christmas time. She then hugged the doctor and began crying more. Laughter slowly mixed in with the tears that seemed to be changing to tears of joy.

This video made me realize how well most of us have it. Most of us are listening to music, or the tv, or someone talking right now. You might even be listening to the music I posted above. Imagine if you could not. How much do you take for granted in your life. That woman had been given the single greatest joy of her life. Something she might have thought she would never have and never get to experience. Yet it is something you, me, and many other people don't even notice.

Always take the time appreciate what you have. Yes your life might be hard. I know mine is. But after watching that, I saw things a new way. When you stop reading this and go about your life, keep that woman in mind. Things can always be worse, and things WILL get better. Tell those that mean the most to you that you love them. Tell your friends you appreciate them. And most importantly, do not take yourself for granted. You are who you are, so be the best YOU that YOU can be. No one else can be you.

I also want to take this time to say that I had one of the hardest things I've had to do in a while. It may not have seemed that way at the time. Lets start with this. One of my best friends is moving to Seattle in a week today. I was down seeing him this weekend with my other best friend. The three of us are like brothers. When I started to leave, and was saying my goodbyes, nothing felt different, but when I sat down in my car I started to think about it. I really don't know when I'll see him again. I wish him the best, but I hate to see him go. Just the thought, that that might have been the last time all 3 of us were able to hang out pained me. I know we will see each other again, but on the off chance we don't was what I was, and am, worried about. How many times did I enjoy, but take for granted the times we hung out together. I thought nothing of it. And now...who knows when we will. But I do wish him the best, and will always be his brother!

Ok...think that's about it for now. As always, comments are welcomed and spreading my blog to others is appreciated!

Occupy Wall Street

Please watch the video above before reading the rest of this. This is from the Occupy Wall Street movement. A protest which is going on that I believe needs to go on and needs much much more support. Its very core is protesting corporate greed. How it isn't fair for corporations and their CEO's to be making millions upon millions of dollars but constantly rising prices and cutting jobs. I'm not going to get into details who's fault it is our economy is in the shit hole it is now, because it is more than one person or groups fault, but a big finger needs to be pointed at these people for killing the country as much as they have because of their own personal greed.

Now, what's even more ridiculous is the fact that they edited this video (this was the part that was cut and never made the air) to show their side of the protest, and not the man being interviewed's side. Of course fox news isn't going to put that on the air, he completely destroyed their name. They would be dumb to use it, but they should just of not used ANY of the interview instead of misrepresenting his view.

What is the point of this picture you may be asking yourself. Well this is someones attempt to prove the hypocritical nature of the occupy wall street movement. Stating that they are all talk and not doing anything to actually change it. By using all these thing by corporations and then protesting against the same corporations is just stupid and hypocritical. What they failed to realize is that this only strengthens their point by showing that WE the CONSUMERS should be the ones in charge. That without US the CORPORATIONS are nothing. Yes we only have ourselves to blame for all this. We have ourselves to blame because we let it get this bad before we decided to take action!

I believe this will be all for today. I could continue on into gov't corruption, and many many other things, but I'll save those for later. Not to mention I don't want this blog to be a precedent that all of mine are going to be some random internet user merely complaining about the country he lives in. Some blogs will be like this, and others will be inspiring, while others yet still are goofy! Just stay tuned to see what decides to come out of my mind!

First of Many

Well well well. So you found your way here. I'm sorry. But if you are here then you must at least be remotely interested in what goes on with my life and inside my head. No I'm not sure what I'm going to post here. I'm not even sure where this first blog is going to go, but I have a feeling it'll be more of an introduction than anything else.

So lets start with the basics shall we? I hate talking about myself in list form like this so I'll just do basics and let you readers figure the rest out about me:

Name: Jeff (Please call me Pyro however)
Eyes: Hazel Blue (considered my best feature)
Hair: Brown
Height: Average

So there you go. I recently had a birthday and celebrated 24 years of life on this planet. Many things have been going on lately but I don't want to try to sum it all up in one blog, or make this so long I bore you as you very well may already be.

Alright lets get to what I'm going to consider the closing point of this blog. Every blog I'll try to include a video or some lyrics or something fun to help entertain you readers. Today it's going to be a video of a puppet dog. This is an old school puppet with strings and all. This guy is good with it and entertains children and adults alike. Hope you all enjoy, and thanks for reading!